I need to apologize to everyone watching Baby Hayden's blog, I forgot my computer when we went to see him yesterday and we don't have internet at our house. So I will have to update y'all on the last two days right now. Hayden has been restarted on his food at 10 mls. every three hours. He is still on his pump for the food, they will increase his feeding by 2 mls. every eight hours. So far he has made it up to 12 mls. He will be on his IV till tomorrow when they get him up to 16 mls. His X-rays came back normal again! So as far as we know it was just an allergic reaction to the formula that they gave him. He has also been taken off all of his antibiotics that they gave him to clear up his allergic reaction. This luckily hasn't caused him to lose much of his weight that he gained. He still weighs 2 lbs. and 3 ozs.
His breathing has been great lately and he is still on room air and only on 15 breaths per minute to help him out. His spells of apnea and bradycardia have also started to come fewer and farther between. This is a great sign and hopefully they will decrease him even further on the oxygen tomorrow. They said that the next step for him is continuous air flow with no extra help breathing. He has also been moved from the critical care side of the NICU to the progressive care side, which the nurse said means he has graduated and is making great progress!! Also, they have taken his lab work down to be taken from once every day to only twice per week now.
He still hates anything touching him; he was trying to pull his feeding tube and O2 off while we were holding him. I think he may have been a little tired today from all of the fussing because he seemed rather grouchy and he cried a lot when he was being messed with. Yesterday though was a good day for him and he was very smiley and alert. So hopefully tomorrow when he gets his energy back from the feedings he will be more relaxed. He is making such good progress and we know that it is because of all your prayers and because God has great plans for him. We greatly appreciate all of you and know that because of your faithful lifting up of little Hayden to God, he continues to grow stronger every day. Thank you all for your words of encouragement and the love that you continue to show us.
Tim, Hilary, and Hayden
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